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[Edward Gaughan]

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) houses one of the world's largest collections of biodiversity, including over 32 million biological specimens and 4 million fossils. The Division of Invertebrate Zoology is conducting a search for a Scientific Assistant to assist the continued growth and management of the collections and associated resources (archives, databases, and tissues) of Arachnida (excluding spiders) and Myriapoda. The Division contains the second-largest collection of scorpions, the largest collection of minor arachnid orders, and one of the largest collections of myriapods, in North America, including a worldwide representation of taxa, with a strong emphasis on material from Africa, North America and elsewhere in the New World. The majority of specimens are preserved in ethanol, although large slide-mounted and frozen tissue collections are also represented.

Duties: The successful applicant will assist the curator in management of the collections including specimen sorting, labeling, preparation, accessioning and databasing new acquisitions; systematic arrangement, storage and organization of the collection; conservation (ethanol levels, pH, rehydration, label integrity, rehousing into better containers, etc.); routine collections tasks (assistance to visitors, response to requests for information, retrieving, packing and shipping loans to other institutions, unpacking and curating loan returns and donations to AMNH, databasing accessions, loan and visitor activity); museum and local community service (collection tours and related activities); training and supervision of students and volunteers; management of frozen tissues and associated data.

Qualifications: BS in Biology, Zoology or Entomology. Candidates with general knowledge of terrestrial arthropod (preferably arachnid and/or myriapod) morphology and systematics, good organizational skills and attention to details, and a good command of MS Word and Excel are preferred, with more experienced databasing ability desirable.


For more information or to apply for this position please visit the following link:

https://careers.amnh.org/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp


Edward F. Gaughan
Division Administrator
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Phone: 212-769-5601
Fax:  212-769-5277

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